It's been an eventful couple of years. Let's dig right in.
My divorce was final on February 21, 2017. Wasn't very sad about it then, not very sad about it now. It needed to happen, and he was already seeing someone before our divorce was final, so I'm really sure he didn't care either. Although he pretended to. That's a story for another blog. At any rate, he's engaged now. Moving on.
Last year, in March, we moved from Indiana to Mississippi to follow a job. It was a great job, a well paying job, and I thought I fit into the company well. However, once I got there, the job changed from a staying-in-place job to a constant-travel-to-Nashville job, which was weird, because they knew I'm a single Mom. They just didn't seem to care. That summer, in late June, we went back to Colorado for a quick trip, and I had two more small strokes. When I came back to Mississippi, I was fired.
Yes, that was legal. It's a right to work state, they could let me go for any reason. Also, I hadn't been there an entire year, so I did not get FMLA coverage yet. This wasn't heartbreaking, the job wasn't right for me and working for a company that would require that level of travel from a single Mom was a terrible idea.
It wasn't too long before I found another similar job, and we moved to Collinsville, IL (WAAAAAAAAAY at the southern end of IL.) At work, I'm less than five miles from the river, so just this side of St. Louis. We're much more at home here than we were in Mississippi, so we consider this a very good move. We're happy.
Peyton is now 15, and almost done with her first year of High School. She hates it. Predictably. Right now, she has turquoise hair, although we were trying for green. She's also taller than me, which is completely disrespectful and I'm kinda lowkey mad about it. I guess I'll die mad about it, since I can't exactly force her to shrink!
Charlotte is 10 and is in fifth grade. She's reading like a champ and consumes books like some people consume food. We're about to start a book review blog, which I'm hoping I'll do better at than this one. Time will tell.
My health has been pretty much OK, but when the weather gets cold, I have a lot of achiness and some moments of more acute pain. I guess that's all to be expected and just something I'll have to get used to and learn to live with, as there's no doctor that I've seen who seems to care or who is willing to do anything about it.
Anyway, I'm still around, still occasionally think about posting. Maybe I'll try to do better, maybe I won't. Again, time will tell! Have a good day!
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